Date   : Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:01:52 GMT
From   : jgh@... (J.G.Harston)
Subject: Spitting expletives

Rick Murray wrote:
> On 27/07/2010 09:05, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> > In the case of a BASIC program, it would logically be the
> > interpreter of choice.
> 
> Which, logically enough, would be VB... :-)
> 
> The pain, and this would affect RISC OS too, is when different,
> incompatible, files are given the same extension, hence my use of
> ".basic". Probably it should be ".bbcbasic" to further distinguish!

But you've been talking about /tokenised/ BBC BASIC. "." is the
extension for Acorn tokenised BBC BASIC. ".bas" is the extension
for one particular type of text file.

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